Being Nude The Skin of Images

Name: Being Nude The Skin of Images
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ISBN: 9780823256211

ISBN-10: 0823256219

ISBN-13: 9780823256211

Edition: 2014

Authors: Jean-Luc Nancy, Federico Ferrari, Anne O'Byrne, Carlie Anglemire

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What does it mean to be nude? What does the nude do? In a series of constantly surprising reflections, Jean-Luc Nancy and Federico Ferrari encounter the nude as an opportunity for thinking in a way that is stripped bare of all received meanings and preconceived forms. In the course of engagements with twenty-six separate images, the authors show how the nudes produced by painters and photographers expose this bareness of thought and leave us naked on the verge of a sense that is always nascent, always fleeting, on the surface of the skin, on the surface of the image.While the nude is a symbol of truth in philosophy and art alike, what the nude definitively and uniquely reveals is unclear.…

Book details

Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 8/1/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 136
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.46" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.374
Language: English